Production
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where
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Benin [kingdom]
Photographer: Dietmar Gunne | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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two Portuguese
Bronze plate, damaged (lower right corner broken off). Index card : Two Europeans with a circular disc, two Europeans resembling each other, dressed in long, smooth doublet, pleated skirt, long leg dresses and long, circular decorated sleeves. Large, semi-circular helmets with curved rims, characteristically long, straight hair and beards. The man on the left carries a short, curved knife on his belt, the man on the right has a short sword on a sling hanging over his right shoulder. Both are holding a circular object with a decorated rim, probably a brass plate, between their raised arms. A rosette between the feet of both figures and below the left figure. Stamped background with floral motifs
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Relief plaque
- Dimensions
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Height: 40 cm
Depth: 4,2 cm
Width: 30,5 cm - Material/Technique
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Brass
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III C 7654
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Production
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when
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16th century
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where
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Nigeria
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Collecting
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who
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Hale & Son - Former Possessors
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Description
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16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), Royal Palace, Benin City; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; auctioned by the firm of Hale & Son, 1897; purchased at auction by the Royal Museum of Ethnology, 1897.
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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